A media conference was organized by National
Fisheries Solidarity Movement in the center of Alliance of Northern Province
Fisher People on 1st of February 2013 in Jaffna. N. Inbanayagam who
is a coordinator of National Fisheries Solidarity Movement leaded the
conference and there were five members who live in welfare camps as a result of
war since 1990. Mr. Priyankara costa, Lavina Hasanthi, Pradeep
Laksiri and Jesudasan who represent the
secretariat of National Fisheries Solidarity Movement also participated the
conference.
Most of people who became as internal displace peoples because of the
war in Kankasanthurei, Palali, Mallagam, Vadamarachchi and Kiyadi areas since
1990 are still living as refugees. They
have to live in temporally houses and shelters which have been built in privet
owner’s land with many difficulties although they have their own land but they
are used as High Security Zones by the forces. People are not permitted to
enter those lands. People complain that there is no any process to resettle the
refugees properly although almost four years have completed after the war. People have been permitted to
resettle in the villages of Koovil,Valithundal. but people return to the
existed refugee camps back because of not having any basic facilities to live
in these villages.
National Fisheries Solidarity Movement implements
different programs even the programs which assist them to increase the income
with internal displace peoples who are living in the seven refugee camps in
Jaffna. When we engage with them, they
request from us to be concerned locally and internationally their issues as
refugees. There for, we decided to organize a media conference because of above
reason in that day. So, some issues which were presented in the media
conference have been published through many Media. Those are given below.
People are able to live comfortably in
the North if they have decentralization of power only
Said by National Fisheries Solidarity
Movement
Walampuri paper -02, 02, 2013
National
Fisheries Solidarity Movement emphasized that Tamil people are able to
comfortably live without any threaten if they only have decentralization of
power in the North and East. People who effected due to the war until have been
stayed in temporally camps without properly resettling even three years spent
after the war. Land of them has been
captured by forces. People who are in
the camps have faced any kind of harms and future of the women is in a terrible
position.
”We do not want to assist, give our land
back, people be humble “
Military government is yet in the North
Blamed by National Fisheries Solidarity
Movement
Udayan paper-02.02.2013
A
military government is conducted even present in the North. The government
exactly will tell an erroneous story informing as all IDPs have been resettled
in the human right conference in next March.
Thousand of people in the families are expecting to resettle, said by A.
Jesudasan who is the coordinator of National Fisheries Solidarity Movement. He
emphasized that the government will exactly tell the lie presenting as all
people resettled.
People
who displaced due to the war in 1990 have been until living as refugees in welfare camps even after 24 years because
of not having a proper resettlement
system. The government does not think
about basic rights and solutions for the issues of the people who are currently
living in camps. People live in high
security zones and military government areas. LLRC report has recommend to
reduce the activation of forces and release the lands to their owners back but
these recommendations were not done in the North. There is a military
government in the north yet. There are many problems in the areas where there
was the last war. Even basic infrastructures were not built in that areas but
the government says that resettlement was completed there.
A decision to internationally influence
on IDPs issues
National Fisheries Solidarity Movement
supports to the people in Valikamam North
Thinakuaral paper- 02.02.2013
Antony
Jesudasan who is the national coordinator of National Fisheries Solidarity
Movement says that we are ready to meet ambassadors in overseas countries to be
concerned the resettlement of the people in Valikamam North.
If
there is no decentralization of power, it is unable to solve even basic
problems in the North an East, he mentions further.
He
said these ideas yesterday evening at the media discussion which was organized
by National Fisheries Solidarity Movement in the center of Alliance of Northern
Province Fisher people located in the main street in Jaffna.
N.
Imbayagam who is the Jaffna district coordinator of National fisheries
solidarity Movement and some representatives of the people who are living in
the refugee camp in Valikamam North participated to the discussion.
People
who came from Valikamam North expressed their viewpoints in the discussion. One
of our generations is living in the camps. We were informed to move from the
camps being given a two month period for that. Responsible government officials
say us to buy other lands and settle of them. They do not mention any ideas
about our resettlement in our own lands. They attempt us to be removed for
other places form where we settled right now. We who live in the refugee camps
have no strong economic condition to buy lands. We are unable to continue our children’s education. We who
survive on the labor work are unable to have even three meals of the day. It is
difficult to be sewed our children’s
uniform although they have been given freely. We are unable to be married our
daughters. We can not look after our children properly on this complex house
system. We are gradually coming closer to die on hunger.
We
did not combat having weapons but we had to face many castigations. If any body
thinks that people should fall on his legs to get their own lands, we are ready
to do that, people said with tear eyes.
Expressing
the national coordinator of National Fisheries Solidarity Movement he said that
National Fisheries Solidarity Movement is campaigning about the invasion of
Indian trawlers, migration of southern fishermen and political solution. We
are ready to be internationally
concerned about this issues. We hope to implement this through the foreign
embassies.